Award-winning journalist Walter M. Brasch has written a critically-acclaimed novel set  from the 1960s counterculture through 1991, the day before the first Gulf War begins. Filled  with free love, anti-war protest, music, protection of the environment, bureaucracy, greed, and corruption, with a pro-worker focus in a country that was developing "maximizing profits" as a corporate battle cry, Before The First Snow is the story of a flower child and the reporter who covered her life for three decades. Apryl Greene, a musician and freelance photographer, plans to build a school for peace and the arts, but she is facing powerful forces that have begun a process to legally seize her land, perhaps under the guise of “national security.” Together, they are driven to find out who are behind the conspiracy; more important, Why.    Learn More